_________________Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied

Every time I perform a kernel/headers update, on the nightly VM's host, something needs to be fixed (e.g. rsync server stops auto-starting, VBox service fails even after vboxdrv re-setup, no-ip client needs some tweaking, etc...).

As long as I have the nightly VMs backed up, I don't worry much, however the anxiety level increases.
Since the last server h/w change, I have an extra disk. I am thinking of replicating the current server disk to that spare one, to be more safe.
"More safe?!?"
Given Murphy's Law of Data Loss, the probability of a hard-disk crash increases with the number of days since the drive was last backed up.
For the "nightly builds" server this probability is currently 1.

Hmm.. I wasn't aware kernel upgrades came under the heading of "security update"..

Anyway, good to hear you're on top of it.

_________________Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. ~ Disembodied

Due to the increased frequency of "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault" issue, for both Windows and Linux nightly builds, I will proceed in running a comprehensive memory test on the TerraStorage server, to at least exclude the case of physical memory issues.

On that matter a server downtime is planned as follows:Server Shutdown: 5/Apr/2015 21:00 (UTC)Server Startup: 7/Apr/2015 21:00(UTC)(following server shutdown, the next cumulative update, for Windows and Linux nightly build, will be available Wednesday morning)

This means that following server shutdown for Windows and Linux

Oolite update (i.e. rsync service) will be unavailable,

nightly build releases will freeze at Sunday's nightly build

alternative links, for Sunday's nightly build full download only, can be found below:

EDIT 2015-04-08: Unfortunately the memory test showed that all memory banks were faulty. I managed to find some spares, but the memory test showed that one bit, one single annoying bit in a pool of billions, is faulty (if life is a simulation, someone is really having fun with me). Anyhow, for the time being, I am running the server with this known defect.

EDIT 2015-04-09: Windows and Linux alternative links have been disabled.